SPOTLIGHT: Textbook revisions in Texas bring concern

10:44 PM,
Dec. 6, 2013

Written by

Tim Walker

History, Winston Churchill famously said, is written by the victors. Don McLeroy no doubt agrees.

McLeroy is a dentist from Bryan, Texas, a self-described Christian fundamentalist, and an outgoing member of state school board of education. Over the past year, McLeroy and his allies formed a powerful bloc on the 15-member elected board and pushed through controversial revisions to the statewide social studies curriculum.

"Sometimes it boggles my mind the kind of power we have," McLeroy recently boasted. ...